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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Young Conservatives
Young Conservatives
stated on September 8, 2017 an Internet post
"Mass voter fraud just discovered, to the amount that could void Hillary’s victory In New Hampshire."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • September 15, 2017
Babylon Bee
Babylon Bee
stated on May 24, 2017 a web post
"ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 6, 2017 a web post
"Hurricane Irma could be a Category 6 by the time it hits East Coast."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 remarks at the Justice Department
Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 22, 2017 social media feeds
"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally in Phoenix
"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters
White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 17, 2017 a tweet
"Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters
Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017
Roy Moore
Roy Moore
stated on August 14, 2017 an interview with Vox.com
"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2017
Rearfront.com
Rearfront.com
stated on August 9, 2017 a web post
"Dwayne 'The Rock' (Johnson) Has Officially Filed For The 2020 Presidential Campaign"
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 14, 2017
Sebastian Gorka
Sebastian Gorka
stated on August 8, 2017 an interview with MSNBC
"There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 9, 2017 a tweet
"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on July 28, 2017 a statement
Because of the failure to pass a repeal bill, "Obamacare remains the law of the land ... This means more than 300,000 Georgians below the poverty line will still not have access to the insurance Obamacare promised."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2017 a tweet
"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2017 remarks in the Oval Office
"Business spirit is the highest it's ever been, according to polls."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on Fox News
In economic growth, "Obama's best year was slower than Bill Clinton's worst year."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 a speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree
"We had the best jobs report in 16 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a tweet
"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
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